Rings and lamps

During wc 12th Jan I and a guy at work, Steve, had been doing some research on my car. For the UK it needs a rear fog lamp fitting. This is also true of cars sold in Australia but the Austalian service manual didn't have a wiring diagram! Thankfully Steve was an wiring harness engineer. He managed to dig out some Japanese wiring diagrams from work and thought he had worked everything out. To complicate things the car at SOP (Start Of Production) had one wiring harness but over the course of it's life ended up with 4 separate harnesses to make cars cheaper by not carrying redundant features. You have to remember when the car was launched in early 1999 it was only a few months before Renault bailed out Nissan from bankruptsy and by 2002 when they stopped building it Nissan anounced the average car was 30% cheaper to build!
Come Saturday he came over and we spent a while checking volts and continuity, wired everything together and... nothing except for 2 blown fuses. He had to get home but came around again on the Sunday.
He had had a think over the past evening and realised that we had wired up the fog lamp switching and relay to the trailer lamps circuit, hence to blown fuses. Being a high-spec model he thought he would have everything built in but it appeared not. Having worked out that the car didn't have the required wiring in place we ran a wire down the car and wired everything up and... it all worked first time! I always had faith in him, honest!
On the Saturday after Steve had left Emi and I went to SHinjuku to pick up our wedding rings. While there I also popped into Yodabashi Camera to buy a new Sony Walkman. I ended up very disapointed.
The standard model in the shop with the various Yodabashi discount points taken off came to 21,000Yen. However all standard Sony products in Japan only support Japanese, to get English support I needed to buy the international version. So we walked to the other end of the shop to find out that the international model A) didn't come with noise-cancelling headphones that the Japanese model did and B) come out at 39,000Yen, nearly twice as much! At current exchange rate that works out at 312 quid when Amazon in the UK are selling them for 170! Being a Sony fan - I've always bought Sony Walkmans, have had Sony car stereos, have a Sony TV etc - I am very disapointed. Still, I'll end up buy the Sony anyway as I don't want to be anothing Apple fashion victim.